FAQ & definitions
Bouldering is a type of climbing practiced on climbing walls or rocks up to up to a height of about 4 meters. Special thick and soft mats used for belaying during bouldering. A climbing wall for bouldering is called a bouldering gym. You don’t need a belayer or climbing equipment to practice bouldering. All you need is comfortable sportswear and a good attitude
These are climbing routes that are waiting for you at Mood! Each boulder consists of several or more holds and footholds of a particular color and has marked starting holds and a top, which is the final hold. On the climbing wall you may also encounter terms such as bald, bulder, balder. They all mean the same thing.
Of course! Climbing is a sport for everyone. The boulders at Mood are prepared for climbers of all climbing levels and for people who just want to start climbing. We have a variety of routes for you to introduce you to the world of climbing, making every challenge enjoyable. The difficulty of the easiest climbing routes at Mood is often compared to climbing a ladder.
Visit us, and we’ll take care of the rest. You can start climbing in many different ways – on your own, with friends, during an intro class, or training with a climbing instructor. The choice is yours! For your first visit to the climbing wall, we highly recommend going with friends who already climb, joining an intro classssss, or having a training session with an instructor. Remember, climbing is a social sport.
Climbing is a safe sport, but you need to remember a few important rules. The most important is to jump down onto the mattress in a controlled manner after finishing the boulder, and always check if someone is climbing below or above you. This is the most important rule, which you should know and follow every time you visit Mood.
Bouldering is a sport for everyone. At Mood, we make sure that people who want to start climbing have plenty of challenges to overcome. Our boulders are graded on a 9-level difficulty scale. The easiest ones can be completed without any trouble during your first visit – the size of the holds on such boulders is comparable to a pull-up bar. As your climbing skills develop, you will climb to the next levels of difficulty scale. and the holds and footholds will become smaller and weaker.
At Mood we set up boulders based on colors. Each boulder has two hand starting holds marked with two tags. The final hold, called the TOP, is marked with a single tag. A completed TOP is one that you hold with two hands in a stable position. For more rules, especially those concerning safety on the climbing wall, see First time at Mood.
Wear comfortable sportswear. At Mood, we have separate changing rooms for men and women. You can rent climbing shoes from us at the reception. Take a water bottle or flask with you – free filtered water is available for all visitors. And most importantly, have fun during your visit!
We use special climbing shoes for bouldering, which you can rent at the Mood reception desk during your visit.
At any age! Climbing is a sport that develops all muscle parts as well as the mind. It is a good break from daily life and an excellent way to spend your free time actively. At Mood, we welcome children from the youngest age, and we also have many climbers of mature age. Everyone finds joy in climbing!
Yes, we call it a playroom. It’s a part of the climbing wall designed especially for our youngest climbers. We set the boulders there by colors, but with the children’s abilities in mind. There are also tunnels, slides and soft mattresses that bring plenty of smiles to the kids.
Of course. The Mood team is always at your service. During your first visit, you can count on basic instructions about safety rules on the climbing wall and information about where everything is located at Mood. And if you want to take your first climbing steps under the guidance of a climbing instructor – we invite you to join our Intro Class, included in the entry fee.
If you’re planning to visit on your own or with friends, there’s no need to book in advance – just come by. However, if you’d like to participate in a training with a climbing instructor, a climbing class, an intro class, or a climbing course, please let us know in advance. You can contact us via email or by filling out the form on our website.
A standard single entry to Mood costs 59 PLN. However, before your visit, check our pricing list. At Mood, we honor Multisport Plus, Kids, Senior, Student with an extra fee 12 PLN and FitProfit, Medicover and PZU Sport cards with an additional fee of 10 PLN. You can also purchase membership, which is valid also at our second boulder gym, Cube. Climbing is cheaper during morning hours. We also provide discounts for people under 26 and over 60 years old. Children under the age of 3 can use the facility completely free of charge.
No, you can climb exactly as much as you want. Mood entries have no time limit. You can even spend the whole day with us and have fun!
For bouldering on a climbing wall, you practically don’t need any equipment. It is enough to have comfortable sportswear. You can rent climbing shoes at Mood. If you enjoy bouldering, it’s worth considering purchasing chalk, a chalk bag, and your own climbing shoes. For outdoor bouldering you’ll also need a crash pad.
Yes, bouldering is a sport you can practice on your own. However, we encourage you to visit with friends to share the excitement of conquering your first boulders together. At Mood, you can also join a wide range of organized classes. You can find our suggestions in the Climbing Offer tab.
All of them! Climbing is a comprehensive sport that evenly develops all muscle groups. Additionally, it has a positive impact on your mind – it teaches logical thinking, problem-solving, and overcoming personal barriers. Anyone can climb! At Mood, you can also sign up for personal training sessions or use our gym to stretch or do a general workout after climbing.
By bike, public transport, or car. We’re located in Zabłocie, or more precisely on Klimeckiego 14B. In front of the entrance to Mood, you’ll find plenty of bike parking spaces and a large car park. The Klimeckiego streetcar stop is about 300 meters away from us.
Yes! Mood is not just a climbing wall. It’s also a café and bakery. You’ll always find delicious cakes, pastries, focaccia, and artisan breads waiting for you. We also offer a menu full of coffee, tea, beer, and non-alcoholic drinks. Filtered water is free for all our visitors. Special taps are available in the café and the bouldering area.
Yes! We love dogs. However, we ask that when you visit Mood with your dog that you take care of the safety of both your pet and other climbers. Remember that doggies should not be on the mattresses, in the fall zone of climbers.
Yes! There is a large parking lot in front of Mood for our visitors. The first 30 minutes are for free, and after that, parking costs 4 PLN for each hour started. Membership and Multi-entry holders park for free. On Sundays parking is free for everyone. There are also plenty of spaces in front of the building for bikes.
At Mood, you’ll find a variety of climbing walls, also known as formations. We have slab walls, vertical walls, overhanging walls and even a roof section. Spraywall and Kilterboard are also waiting for you.
It’s a special boulder that we change every week. If you make it you get a free coffee at our cafe! Visit Mood, record a video of yourself completing the Boulder of the Week, post it on your Instagram, tag the IG account Mood.boulder and report to the cafe to receive a delicious coffee.
Yes, we accept Multisport Plus, Senior, Junior, and Student cards with an additional fee of 12 PLN. At Mood, you can also use Medicover, FitProfit and PZU Sport cards. For more details, click here.
Yes, Mood has a small gym where you can do general fitness training or warm up. It’s equipped with kettlebells, dumbbells of various sizes, resistance bands, pull-up bars, a cable machine, and other training equipment. We’ve also prepared a dedicated warm-up area located opposite the climbing wall. Additionally, you can sign up for general fitness courses, personal training sessions with a coach, and take advantage of advice from a physiotherapist and a nutritionist.
Most climbing competitions are open to everyone. We organize many events, some of them are especially for beginner climbers, some for children, and some for everyone. In the Events tab, we regularly post updates about upcoming activities. We’re sure you’ll find events for you!
Definitions
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Bouldering
Is a type of climbing practiced on walls or rocks up to a height of about 4 meters. Special thick and soft mattresses are used for belaying during bouldering. A climbing wall for bouldering is called a bouldering gym. You do not need a belayer or climbing equipment to practice bouldering. All you need is comfortable sportswear and good intentions.
Boulder
These are the climbing routes that are waiting for you at Mood! Each boulder consists of several or a dozen holds and footholds of a particular color and has marked starting holds and a top, which is the final hold. On the climbing wall you may also encounter terms such as bald, bulder, balder. They all mean the same thing.
Bouldering gym
A climbing wall where you can climb up to a height of about 4 meters. When climbing on a bouldering gym, your belay is a thick, soft mattress.
chalk
Is a white powder that most climbers use on climbing walls. It is put into special chalk bags, which climbers have clipped to their belts. Its purpose is to prevent climbers’ hands from sweating. As a result, hands do not slip while climbing, and wet sweat marks of other climbers do not remain on the holds.
climbing holds
All the colorful “stones”on a climbing wall. The most popular types include jugs, cripms, slopers, underclings, pinches, and side pulls. Using climbing holds of a specific color, routesetters create new boulder problems every week on the Mood.
volume
Is a replaceable element fixed to the climbing wall, which improves the boulders. At Mood you will most often meet grey volumes, but there are also black or other colors. They can be triangular, polygonal, flat or strongly protruding, small or large. Sometimes they are designed to make the boulder easier to climb, sometimes to make it more difficult. They affect the variety of each boulder. At Mood we follow the rule that voumes can be used on everything – that means, you can use them during the climbing of any boulder as footholds or holds.
Difficulty scale
The system used at our climbing wall to classify boulders. Our scale consists of 9 difficulty levels, with higher levels indicating more challenging problems. The difficulty of a boulder is marked by the color of the tags attached to the starting holds. You can find an explanation of each difficulty level in the “About Mood” section or during your visit. This scale helps you choose boulders suited to your skill level.
Boulder grade
An approximate measure of a boulder’s difficulty. At Mood, we grade boulders using a 9-level color-coded difficulty scale. In the rocks boulders are typically graded using the French system, such as 5A, 6B, or 7C – the higher the number and letter, the harder the boulders
Starting holds
One or two climbing holds which you can find on the lower part of the climbing wall, marked with two tags. These are the holds you should use with your hands to properly start a boulder problem.
TOP
The final hold on a boulder problem. Once you hold it, place your other hand on it as well and hold a stable position for a few seconds. Only then can you consider the boulder completed. At Mood, the TOP is marked with a single colored tag.
Routesetter
The person who sets routes or boulder problems on a climbing wall. At Mood, we invite the best routesetters from all over Poland, ensuring the highest quality boulders for you to enjoy.
Climbing classes
An organized group of climbers with similar skill levels who train regularly under the guidance of a climbing coach. We offer climbing sections for various skill levels at our second facility – Cube.
Climbing Formation
A specific shape of a climbing wall where holds are set. Formations often differ in wall angle and features like breaks or transitions. At Mood, we offer small and large overhangs, vertical walls, slabs, roofs, corners, and mantles. Check out the different formations in our bouldering gym here.
Beta
This is the colloquial name for how to climb a particular climbing route.
Kilter board
A system wall on which you will do a super strength and finger workout! It has an adjustable angle, holds illuminated by LEDs and you choose the difficulty of the boulder in the app. Boulders are arranged by climbers from all over the world. You can read more about kilter on Mood here.
Spraywall
A place on Mood where we set up boulders inspired by the rock climbing, but in our 9-level difficulty scale. Find out more about our Spraywall here.
Compwall
This is a part of the climbing wall at Mood, where we set boulders straight from the World Cup, but with difficulty corresponding to our 9-level difficulty scale. This is also where we hold the finals of all the competitions that take place at Mood. You can see what our Compwall looks like here.
Traverse
A way of climbing sideways, along the mattress instead of upwards. Usually at one height. Sometimes boulders are traverses, which means they start from the left side of the wall and go to the right or vice versa.
Full Crimp
A way of gripping a hold, also known as a closed grip, typically used on small crimps. In this hold, the thumb presses over the other fingers placed on the hold. If you’re not adequately trained, be cautious when using this hold, as excessive force can lead to finger injuries.
Bending
A colloquial term for powerful moves on a climbing route, often on overhangs and using relatively good holds.
Climbing technique
Various methods of moving on the climbing wall that make it easier to complete a route while conserving energy during each move. There are many climbing techniques, and you can learn them during courses and climbing classes.
Heel hook
A colloquial term for using your heel to hook onto a hold, foothold, or volume while climbing a route.
Dyno
Any kind of dynamic movement or jump on climbing routes and boulders.
Double Dyno
Also known as a “mono,” is a type of dynamic jump performed with both hands simultaneously, moving from one hold to the next.
Lambada
A type of dynamic jump where the climber swings on a hold and leaps to another hold or foothold using the momentum of their body. During this movement, the climber’s body typically loses all contact with the climbing wall.
Core
A term climbers use to describe body tension in the abdominal and lower back areas during climbing.
Ładowanie
A general term for climbing training, which can include climbing itself, strength training, campus board exercises or hangboard sessions
Intervals
A type of climbing training where boulders – either the same one or different ones – are repeated with very short rest periods in between. This training strengthens power endurance and is typically suited for more advanced climbers. The term “intervals” is also commonly used in other sports disciplines.
Circuits
A type of climbing training where a large number of continuous moves are performed on the wall without stepping down onto the mat. It is usually done on designated holds and sometimes includes specific footholds. This training develops climbers’ endurance and is useful well to rope climbing outdoors.
General development training
Is training that is complementary to climbing, its purpose is to comprehensively develop all muscle parts of your body and prevent injuries. Usually these are non-climbing exercises, but ones that will help you raise your climbing level. At Mood we have a wide range of general development classes for climbers.
Fingerboard
A training tool for more advanced climbers, designed to practice holding specific types of holds. Exercises are usually performed while hanging or locking off. It allows you to train grip strength on holds like crimps, slopers, pockets, pinches, full crimp, and more. Fingerboards are often made of wood.
Crux
The term used to describe the most challenging section of a boulder problem or climbing route.
Panel
Another term for a climbing wall, commonly used informally among climbers.
Tag
With them we mark the starting and top holds on the boulder on Mood. Their color designates the difficulty of the boulder in our 9-level difficulty scale.
Warun
A colloquial term for the atmospheric conditions in outdoor climbing areas or on the climbing wall. In climbing conversations, you might hear that the “warun” is bad if it’s too warm, wet, or humid—conditions that affect grip quality. A good “warun” occurs when the friction on holds is optimal, and the temperature and conditions are favorable for climbing comfort and performance.
Bouldering Competitions
A type of climbing competition held on boulders, which are climbing routes up to approximately 4 meters high. Depending on the competition format, participants may have to complete dozens of boulders within a set time. The competitions are divided into various categories based on the skill level of the climbers or are targeted at specific groups, such as beginners, intermediate, or advanced climbers. At Mood, the biggest bouldering competition we organize is Mood Masters – created for climbers of all climbing levels.
Crashpad
A portable mattress that is used for belaying a fall while bouldering outdoors.
Come on!
A type of climbing competition held on boulders, which are climbing routes up to approximately 4 meters high. Depending on the competition format, participants may have to complete dozens of boulders within a set time. The competitions are divided into various categories based on the skill level of the climbers or are targeted at specific groups, such as beginners, intermediate, or advanced climbers. At Mood, the biggest bouldering competition we organize is Mood Masters – created for climbers of all climbing levels.
